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Many modern albums that already have heavy bass are rendered unlistenable by excessive compression. It's a serious issue, having to listen at very very low volume in order not to cause a rumpus.

Have any of you read The Revolution and the Civil War in Spain by Pierre Broue and Emile Temime?

No.

I had a bit of a listen to Heaven and Earth just now, randomly playing tracks from all three discs, and I'm not impressed. I was especially disgusted with the computer distorted vocals on Vi Lua Vi Sol. Not to insult members who like Kamasi Washington, but this is rubbish. Jazzy muzak for people with low standards. Mastering way too loud, of course.

It could turn out pretty disastrous for FIFA World Cup 2026, co-hosted by Canada, Mexico, and the United States.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/brexit-musicians-refuse-perform-uk-visa-process-womad-festival-chris-smith-a8464431.html Musicians refusing to perform in UK due to 'humiliating' post-Brexit vote visa process and right-wing politicians, says Womad festival organiser Chris Smith described the situation as something Britain should be 'ashamed of' “We’ve had situations where, say, an African artist has been due to come who plays a particularly rare instrument, and we’ll be asked: ‘Can’t you find someone in the UK who plays that instrument?’, which is absurd.“

McCoy Tyner The Real McCoy (TYCJ-81046, BN 75th Anniversary SHM-CD)

This building was completed only ten years ago, so it has some pretty good, modern isolation. Once when the downstairs apartment was empty (front door stood open) and being debugged and renovated after some other nutter had made a mess of it, I put on some very loud electric Miles and went downstairs to listen. I didn't think it was that bad, actually. So, given that I usually listen at much lower volume, I think he is overreacting. He is probably also underestimating the noise he makes himself. Particularly in respect to what I believe his own downstairs neighbour must be experiencing daily. Anyway, always make sure you get a top floor apartment in a social housing project.

Ever since that asshole put a drill in the wall for some 45 minutes right beneath my bedroom at exactly 5 AM late last summer, I don't give a shit what he thinks. I don't put free jazz on to annoy him, just because I feel like listening. A couple of months later he had the nerve to complain to the social housing corporation he felt he was being bullied because he could sometimes hear some piano music late at night. Fuck him. By the way, the windows are closed now. Too hot outside.

Cecil Taylor Live in the Black Forest (MPS, UCCU-9014) 35°C here today. Driving up the heat further with this Cecil Taylor gem.

AUG 6 MON Openluchttheater Caprera Bloemendaal Bloemendaal, Netherlands Next to Haarlem. Looks like a nice place for a concert, but €41 for a ticket is too expensive, I think.

Pearls before swine.

John Zorn Bar Kokhba: Masada Chamber Ensembles (Tzadik)

Good thing Wayne is finally releasing whole concerts on CD.

Sure, I am probably annoying the neighbours now. The Cecil Taylor Unit is on and the windows are wide open.

https://www.discogs.com/Cecil-Taylor-Conversations-With-Tony-Oxley/release/11968290 Tracklist 1 Berlin Conversations 1 37:18 2 Berlin Conversations 2 18:53 3 Berlin Conversations 3 17:04 4 Berlin Conversations 4 4:50 Companies, etc. Recorded At – Berliner Philharmonie Credits Design – Herbert Weisrock Drums – Tony Oxley Engineer [Sound Assistant] – Reinhard Schickel Engineer [Sound Engineer] – Nikolaus Löwe Liner Notes [Translation (English)] – Miriamme Fields Liner Notes, Producer [For rbb], Executive-Producer – Ulli Blobel Photography By [Photos] – Heinrich Brinkmüller-Becker Piano – Cecil Taylor Recording Supervisor [Sound Supervisor] – Wolfgang Hoff Notes Recorded February 20, 2008 at Kammermusiksaal der Philharmonie Berlin. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Has anybody heard this new Cecil Taylor release on Jazzwerkstatt?

The Thelonious Monk Quartet The Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection

Do tell. There must be more of a story to it.

Probably an unknown quantity here. People here seem to often prefer the great classical musicians of the past.

Pat Metheny, Ornette Coleman Song X: Twentieth Anniversary

Archie Shepp The Way Ahead (MVCI-23080)

Archie Shepp Four for Trane (UCCU-5646, SHM-CD)

This album has just been reissued in Japan: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UCCU-5883 Is this worth getting? How essential is it? Going by the above comments it must be a fine recording as far as sound is concerned? By the way, the Japanese disc does not contain the April 1956 session that was tacked onto the domestic BN CD in 1989: https://www.discogs.com/Paul-Chambers-Chambers-Music/release/5137963

I have the 2016 SHM-CD (UCCU-5757) which has the same tracklist as the UHQCD from 2017 from Lon's second link, with both reverbed and dry tracks. It does not compare favourably at all to the new French edition.